Clover coverage report - Acegi Security System for Spring - 1.0.0-RC1
Coverage timestamp: Mon Dec 5 2005 09:05:15 EST
file stats: LOC: 113   Methods: 0
NCLOC: 13   Classes: 1
 
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 1    /* Copyright 2004 Acegi Technology Pty Limited
 2    *
 3    * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 4    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 5    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 6    *
 7    * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 8    *
 9    * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 10    * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 11    * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 12    * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 13    * limitations under the License.
 14    */
 15   
 16    package org.acegisecurity.vote;
 17   
 18    import org.acegisecurity.Authentication;
 19    import org.acegisecurity.ConfigAttribute;
 20    import org.acegisecurity.ConfigAttributeDefinition;
 21   
 22   
 23    /**
 24    * Indicates a class is responsible for voting on authorization decisions.
 25    *
 26    * <p>
 27    * The coordination of voting (ie polling <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code>s,
 28    * tallying their responses, and making the final authorization decision) is
 29    * performed by an {@link org.acegisecurity.AccessDecisionManager}.
 30    * </p>
 31    *
 32    * @author Ben Alex
 33    * @version $Id: AccessDecisionVoter.java,v 1.5 2005/11/17 00:55:47 benalex Exp $
 34    */
 35    public interface AccessDecisionVoter {
 36    //~ Static fields/initializers =============================================
 37   
 38    public static final int ACCESS_GRANTED = 1;
 39    public static final int ACCESS_ABSTAIN = 0;
 40    public static final int ACCESS_DENIED = -1;
 41   
 42    //~ Methods ================================================================
 43   
 44    /**
 45    * Indicates whether this <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code> is able to vote
 46    * on the passed <code>ConfigAttribute</code>.
 47    *
 48    * <p>
 49    * This allows the <code>AbstractSecurityInterceptor</code> to check every
 50    * configuration attribute can be consumed by the configured
 51    * <code>AccessDecisionManager</code> and/or <code>RunAsManager</code>
 52    * and/or <code>AccessDecisionManager</code>.
 53    * </p>
 54    *
 55    * @param attribute a configuration attribute that has been configured
 56    * against the <code>AbstractSecurityInterceptor</code>
 57    *
 58    * @return true if this <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code> can support the
 59    * passed configuration attribute
 60    */
 61    public boolean supports(ConfigAttribute attribute);
 62   
 63    /**
 64    * Indicates whether the <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code> implementation is
 65    * able to provide access control votes for the indicated secured object
 66    * type.
 67    *
 68    * @param clazz the class that is being queried
 69    *
 70    * @return true if the implementation can process the indicated class
 71    */
 72    public boolean supports(Class clazz);
 73   
 74    /**
 75    * Indicates whether or not access is granted.
 76    *
 77    * <p>
 78    * The decision must be affirmative (<code>ACCESS_GRANTED</code>), negative
 79    * (<code>ACCESS_DENIED</code>) or the <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code>
 80    * can abstain (<code>ACCESS_ABSTAIN</code>) from voting. Under no
 81    * circumstances should implementing classes return any other value. If a
 82    * weighting of results is desired, this should be handled in a custom
 83    * {@link org.acegisecurity.AccessDecisionManager} instead.
 84    * </p>
 85    *
 86    * <P>
 87    * Unless an <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code> is specifically intended to
 88    * vote on an access control decision due to a passed method invocation or
 89    * configuration attribute parameter, it must return
 90    * <code>ACCESS_ABSTAIN</code>. This prevents the coordinating
 91    * <code>AccessDecisionManager</code> from counting votes from those
 92    * <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code>s without a legitimate interest in the
 93    * access control decision.
 94    * </p>
 95    *
 96    * <p>
 97    * Whilst the method invocation is passed as a parameter to maximise
 98    * flexibility in making access control decisions, implementing classes
 99    * must never modify the behaviour of the method invocation (such as
 100    * calling <Code>MethodInvocation.proceed()</code>).
 101    * </p>
 102    *
 103    * @param authentication the caller invoking the method
 104    * @param object the secured object
 105    * @param config the configuration attributes associated with the method
 106    * being invoked
 107    *
 108    * @return either {@link #ACCESS_GRANTED}, {@link #ACCESS_ABSTAIN} or
 109    * {@link #ACCESS_DENIED}
 110    */
 111    public int vote(Authentication authentication, Object object,
 112    ConfigAttributeDefinition config);
 113    }